Year 4
Welcome to our Year 4 page. We will keep this page updated with key news and information about our curriculum.
Welcome back to Summer Term!
We're really excited to get started again! We have lots of new topics this term! Keep checking our week by week timetable to see what we have planned and when our new topics in humanities, art, maths, science and literacy are going to be rolled out!
Core notices:
We have changed the day we give out homework. We now give out homework on Monday and collect it back in the following Monday (Spellings remain the same system as before: Thursday given them and tested the following Friday).
Swimming has now finished. 4DH to do indoor PE on a Tuesday now and 4BS to do it on a Wednesday.
Outdoor PE to remain on a Friday.
-Ukuleles lessons every Monday as it was last term.
It is really important that every child has a pair of indoor shoes that they are able to change into when in the classroom. With the cold, wet weather, the playground and outdoor spaces are much wetter and muddier this time of year. Having a pair of indoor shoes will ensure that the classrooms stay clean and comfortable environments for the children to learn in.
Key Documents
Overview of year- click
- VIPERS reading comprehension - Literacy Shed Plus - Literacy Shed Plus - Teaching Resources Made Easy
- Reading list - Books for Year 4 children aged 8-9 | School Reading List
If you missed the curriculum evening, please have a look through the ppt by clicking here. Feel free to arrange a chat if there is anything you wish to discuss further.
Spelling:
Below is an overview of the core spellings we learn this year:
PE and Swimming:
Our day for indoor PE is Wednesday. On this day, children need to bring their indoor PE kit to school in a bag. Mr Healey's class is going swimming in the Autumn term and so will need their swimming kits in school on Wednesday instead of their indoor PE kit.
Our day for outdoor PE is Friday. On this day, children can come to school wearing their outdoor PE kit and remain in their kit for the day.
Homework and Spellings
Homework will be set on a Friday and will be due in on the following Friday.
Spellings will also be set on a Friday and will be tested on the following Friday.
Reading Diaries
Children are encouraged to read at least three times a week with an adult. Teachers will check reading diaries weekly in order to check that children are reading regularly. Reading diaries will be checked on a Monday.
Timestables Practise
We encourage weekly practise of timetables. There are regular tournaments and challenges which we set the children through the Times Tables Rockstars website -Times Tables Rock Stars (ttrockstars.com). Children will take home a letter explaining this website and have their own usernames and passwords. Teachers can use this website to set individualised timetables for each child to practise based on their performance in weekly class assessments.
R.E. and P.S.H.E
This half-term, in R.E. lessons, children will be studying a unit of work on Hinduism. In P.S.H.E. lessons, children will be covering topics regarding staying safe in the wider world and dealing with increased responsibility as they get older.
Literacy:
This week we will be completing our unit on 'The Boy who Biked the World'. We will be looking at features of a persuasive advert before creating one our self.
Towards the end of the week, we will begin our new unit on nonsense poems. We will be exploring imagery, onomatopoeia and rhyming words.
Week beginning: Monday 26th April 2024
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Literacy: We will begin our new literacy unit on a book based on Pompeii (Escape from Pompeii by Christina Balit). This week we will finish off writing a setting description of Pompeii (expanded noun phrases, subordinate clauses, rhetorical questions, figurative language) We will then introduce the next topic in this book looking at character inferences.
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Maths: This week we will continue our work on decimals. This week will focus on flexible partitioning, how to order and compare decimals and rounding decimals.
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Geography: We will begin our new topic on natural disasters and landscapes. This week will be exploring the contour lines and grid references. ICT: We will continue our new topic exploring photo editing. This week will be focussing on cloning and brushing. PE: Indoor PE- handball Outdoor PE- Athletics Art- Drafting our oil pastel. Science: We will continue our states of matter topic looking at melting. Food technology- cooking bread using Italian ingredients |
Week beginning 22nd April 2024
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Literacy: We will begin our new literacy unit on a book based on Pompeii (Escape from Pompeii by Christina Balit).
The first weeks literacy lessons will be collecting ideas and recapping the grammar and punctuation skills needed to write a setting description (expanded noun phrases, subordinate clauses, rhetorical questions, figurative language)
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Maths: We will be continuing our topic on decimals. This weeks focus will be looking at partitioning decimals.
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Geography: We will continue our new topic on natural disasters and landscapes. This week will be looking at more features of a river building on what they learnt last week. They will use the ipads to locate the source and mouth of rivers around the world. ICT: We will be continuing our unit on photo editing. This week will be looking at colour manipulation. Science: We will continue our topic on states of matter, carrying our an investigation into the properties of solids, liquids and gases. Art: We will continue work on our oil pastel unit looking at colour blending. PE: Indoor PE: Handball Outdoor PE: cricket |
Take a look at our curriculum in action.
Romans
We had an amazing Roman day at Lunt Fort. We learnt about the life of a Roman Legionary and even had a go at different shield formations.
Making Roman heads of Caesar and sketching faces.
